Description of NVC types & floristic tables

Description of NVC types

Full descriptions of each of the NVC communities and
sub-communities are contained within the published NVC
volumes. They include summary information on the general
species composition and appearance (physiognomy), the associated
habitat, and zonation and successional characteristics. In
addition, a detailed floristic table is provided, along with
information on the geographic distribution. Brief descriptions (and
some other information) are available for certain NVC
communities/sub-communities via the following links:

NVC floristic tables

Each community/sub-community within the NVC is uniquely defined
by a particular combination of frequency and abundance values for
the species found in the samples grouped within it. This
information is summarised in a standardised tabular format, i.e. a
‘floristic table’.

Each floristic table includes all of the vascular plants,
bryophytes and macro-lichens that occur within the type with a
frequency of 5% or more in any one of the sub-communities (or for
vegetation types with no sub-communities within the community as a
whole). The species are arranged in blocks to indicate their
pattern of occurrence through the community, as explained in the
NVC Users' Handbook and
main NVC
Volumes.

A spreadsheet containing much of the information in the NVC
floristic tables is available via this download: ‘NVC floristic
tables’